An Outline of the Grammar of the Safaitic InscriptionsThis volume contains a detailed grammatical description of the dialects of Old Arabic attested in the Safaitic script, an Ancient North Arabian alphabet used mainly in the deserts of southern Syria and north-eastern Jordan in the pre-Islamic period. It is the first complete grammar of any Ancient North Arabian corpus, making it an important contribution to the fields of Arabic and Semitic studies. The volume covers topics in script and orthography, phonology, morphology, and syntax, and contains an appendix of over 500 inscriptions and an annotated dictionary. The grammar is based on a corpus of 33,000 Safaitic inscriptions. |
Contents
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Chapter 2 Script and Orthography | 26 |
Chapter 3 Phonology and Phonetics | 39 |
Chapter 4 Nominal Morphology | 55 |
Chapter 5 The Verb | 101 |
Chapter 6 Adjectives and Agreement | 138 |
Chapter 7 Prepositions | 144 |
Chapter 8 Adverbs | 154 |
Chapter 15 Topicalization | 180 |
Chapter 16 Syntax of the Infinitive | 182 |
Chapter 17 Relative and Subordinate Clauses | 187 |
Chapter 18 Circumstantial Clauses | 193 |
Chapter 19 Coordination | 195 |
Chapter 20 Conditional Clauses | 197 |
Chapter 21 Other Constructions | 199 |
Chapter 22 Compositional Formulae | 201 |
Chapter 9 Vocative Particles | 158 |
Chapter 10 Other Particles | 160 |
Chapter 11 Conjunctions | 162 |
Chapter 12 Verbless Clauses | 166 |
Chapter 13 Verbal Clauses | 171 |
Chapter 14 The Syntax of Adverbs | 177 |
Chapter 23 Appendix of Inscriptions | 221 |
Chapter 24 Dictionary | 296 |
Plates | 357 |
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Common terms and phrases
AAUI AbaNS Al-Jallad Arabic Aramaic ASWS attested b's¹ Bʻls¹mn blind brkt cairn camels clauses clitic Compare with CAr CONJ context CPRO.3MS CSNS dialects diphthongs Ds²r efface this writing Existential clauses fh lt s¹lm found the trace frs¹ funerary cairn G-SC Gd'wd Gddf glottal stop glyph ġnmt grieved in pain Grm'l HaNSB HAUI herbage Hwlt infinitive inner desert Ks¹t Lane lineage lineage.CNST Macdonald mdbr MKWS Ms¹k Nabataeans NOTES noun nq't nunation participle pastured plural prefix conjugation preposition pronoun Proto-Semitic rain REL.MS rʻy h root RSIS s'fr s'nt S¹'d s¹d s¹hr s¹krn s¹nt s¹r s²mt s²n s²rk Safaitic inscriptions script Semitic languages SESP.U suffix conjugation texts toponym ts2wq verb voc Lt vocalization vowel